Author: Gretchen Dahlkemper

National Field Director gdahlkemper@momscleanairforce.org
Gretchen Alfonso is National Field Director for Moms Clean Air Force, overseeing the strategy of all our state chapters. Prior to becoming National Field Director, she served as Moms Clean Air Force's Pennsylvania field organizer. Raised in Erie, PA Gretchen has worked across the state on environmental education and activism. Gretchen is mom to three small children with her chef husband in Philadelphia.

Moms Clean Air Force is collecting letters, photos and videos about climate change and action for our children and future generations. The Mother’s and Father’s Day campaign runs in May and June through a joint collaboration with Moms Clean Air Force partners, DearTomorrow and The Solutions Project. Dear Fiona, Today...

Each and every day, across America, natural gas — methane — and toxic pollutants are leaking into the air from every part of oil & gas operations – leaking in amounts that harm public health and make our climate unstable. We are in a massive public health...

It was a gorgeous day in Philadelphia on Friday. I left my desk early, picked up my kids from school, and we soaked in the last of the late afternoon sun at a playground. As we headed home the news from Paris came through...

This is a Moms Clean Air Force exclusive interview with Sister Joan Chittister: What are your thoughts about Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si: Care of Our Common Home? I said, “Thanks be to God.” We are finally seeing climate change as a theological issue as...

Right now, a threat from an invisible gas is leaking into the air from natural gas wellheads, pipelines, and compressor stations. That invisible threat is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Last month, concerned moms, citizens, health experts, and New Mexico Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham discussed the...